Hughes Supply, Inc. appointed Thomas J. Starnes to lead its MRO division and appointed Jeff Thiem as branch manager at the Austin Plumbing branch…Motion Industries named Jim McCullar corporate vice president, integrated supply and services, promoted Zahir Hameer to vice president, inventory management, and announced that Chris Lewis, supplier diversity manager, has been named to Alabama's Governor's Commission on Existing Industries…Lawson Products elected Wilma J. Smelcer to its board of directors…Applied Industrial Technologies named Daniel T. Brezovec corporate controller…

Stone Construction Equipment, Inc. appointed John Herc regional manager…Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. announced that H. Jay Elliott, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will retire effective March 31; the company named Vincent Petrella, vice president and corporate controller, as acting chief financial officer effective Jan. 1…Doug Blakeman has been appointed vice president of marketing/sales and business development of the Parker Filtration Group... Reelcraft named Walt Sterneman president of Reelcraft Industries, CEO of Nordic Systems and CEO of Reelcraft International European Branch…ORC Plastics, Rostone Facility, appointed Jim Gregory sales engineer for customers in the Midwest and Dan Coleman sales engineer for clients in the East and Southeast…Oklahoma Safety Equipment Co., Inc. appointed Bret Rosser regional sales manager…Cooper Industries named Clifford J. Grum deputy chairman of its board of directors…Rockwell Automation, Inc. announced that its board of directors has elected Keith Nosbusch president and chief executive officer…

FKI Logistex Real Time Solutions appointed Michael Cleary regional sales manager for its western region and David Mickelsen regional sales manager for its south central region.